Has Meta had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Meta.

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Meta

Q: Who owns Meta?

Meta is operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc..

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Ohio?

Ohio reported $130.4M in Sales/use tax exemption for qualified property used in an eligible computer data center (R.C. § 122.175) for FY2024 (Ohio Department of Taxation / Office of Budget and Management). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Licking County, OH

Source: OpenStreetMap

Meta is a mapped data center in Licking County, OH, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 608,761 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Aug 26, 2026

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Est. capacity

~120-250 MW

Footprint

608,761 sq ft

Interconnection

~300 MW

Utility

Licking Rural Electric INC

Grid

PJM

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

This mapped data center in Licking County, Ohio, is operated by Facebook USA, Inc., a subsidiary ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc. The site covers 608,761 square feet and draws power from Licking Rural Electric INC within the PJM grid. It is recorded here as a Meta data center.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Files as
Facebook USA, Inc.
This facility
Meta

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA

Nearest substation

2.5 mi

Jug Street · 345 kV

Transmission line

0.7 mi

line

Municipal water

Served

Columbus Public Water System

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Ohio reported $130.4M in Sales/use tax exemption for qualified property used in an eligible computer data center (R.C. § 122.175) for FY2024 (Ohio Department of Taxation / Office of Budget and Management). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Ohio subsidies →

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports

AEP (Ohio / WV / VA) · 2027/28 auction

$333 /MW-day

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site cleared at the PJM-wide (RTO) price, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

This site's capacity-market cost (estimated)

$14.6M to $30.4M/yr

An estimated ~120 to 250 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price. Estimated from the building footprint at 200 to 400 W/ft² (the typical range for modern data centers). A rough order-of-magnitude figure, not a metered or permitted capacity.

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

PM2.5

Moderate

Good

PM10

Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Columbus), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$135.2K

People of color

Below poverty

Tract population

2,609

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Licking Heights High School in Pataskala, is 2.3 mi from this site (1,389 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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